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1000 Largest Exoplanets by Radius

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Aalandunning
Last edited Apr 3, 2017
Created on Mar 25, 2017

The visualization displays the 1000 largest known exoplanets as of 2016, with circles scaled by radius. The radii range from 14 to 28 times Earth’s radius, with the largest planet at the upper bound and the 100th largest at the lower bound. Circle color encodes radius, with yellow representing the largest planets. The data, sourced from Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space, is rendered as an SVG using D3 v4.

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The visualisation shows the top 1000 known exoplanets (as of 2016) by radius. The data for this visualisation comes from 'Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space'.

The sizes of circles range from 14x to 28x the radius of Earth. The reason being is that the 100th largest known exoplanet is 14x times the radius of Earth. The largest exoplanet is 28x the size. The colour of the cicles are also based on the radius, yellow is largest.

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